Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called 
Normally, at this point I would give the classification of the primate, but in this case that is not really possible as Afropithecus turkanensis is incertae sedis. This simply means that the exact relationship of Afropithecus has not been worked out yet.
A. turkanensis was discovered in the mid 1980's on the western side of Lake Turkana. A. turkanensis dates to about 18-16 MYA. The skull is characterized by small supraorbital tori, what seems to be a broad interorbital region, somewhat small orbits, long premaxilla, procumbent incisors and a smallish brain. Body size is estimated to be in the Proconsul major.
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